Weekly Weather May 7, 2007
One more week of cosmic roller coaster ~ time for the very big hill right before the end of the ride. You know that long, slow climb up to the tippy top of the high, so very high, hill of track? Your anticipation grows, your anxiety builds and perhaps a bit of dread builds in your stomach as the roller coaster seems to climb and climb? Remember how the ground looks further and further away!? So WHY did you decide to take a ride on this silly roller coaster anyway? Well, no getting off now! It’s almost time for the grand finale! The next few weeks are what all your Saturn experiences and work over the past few years (since July 2005) were for!
Now, let’s review what Saturn wants you to learn during his journey through Leo. Leo is about love, creativity, children, passion, generosity, benevolence, the “I adore what I create” energy. Leo is about loyalty, strength of will, determination, excellence and value. Honor is critical ~ the intent of the deal instead of the technicalities. It is the handshake contract where both sides always behave properly in fulfilling or executing the deal. The negative side of Leo is pride, autocracy, lack of humility and the inability to accept or work within your own or any given limitations.
When Saturn goes through Leo, he asks us to look at the part of our lives that are ruled by Leo. We reflect on the shiny planet’s house as outlining the purpose of our lives ~ where we want to shine in our lifetime. Saturn, by waking up Leo’s house with his journey, also invites our Sun into the mix. So, the house that Leo rules is the AREA WHERE we are supposed to shine in our life. The Zodiac placement of our Sun says HOW we are supposed to shine in our life. Saturn going through the Leo’s house and waking up our sleepy Sun, asks us to look and see. Saturn tells us our work is to give ourselves permission to shine in the area of life we are supposed to shine in ~ even if we are a bit afraid or anxious about shining or getting a sun burn.
So, even if we aren‘t sure we are loveable in that area, act loveable. Even if we aren’t confident of our creativity in that area, act creative. Even if we aren’t generous with ourself in that area, be generous with yourself. Even if we don‘t feel a bit like a Leo, move toward Leo’s passion and benevolence. Adore what you create. Be loyal. Execute with your complete strength of will. Watch for any opportunities to develop determination, excellence and value. Honor is critical ~ the intent of the deal instead of the technicalities.
As Saturn wakes up Leo‘s house and our Suns, we notice all the things we do SO well for others and yet have SO much trouble doing for ourselves are alive and talking to us from the center of the room. Go over and sit with Saturn. Understand that ALL your life is geared towards making you love your Saturn and figure out how to work with it in an effective, conscious and life generating manner. Fear it, or avoid it, or be humiliated by it, when you were young or unconscious. But, now, as you age, don’t you see how Saturn is SO much a part of the structure of your life? If you approach Saturn with what the Buddhists call “loving kindness” then Saturn will show you how to live your very best life. And conversely, if you dishonor or avoid or don’t show up or ignore your Saturn, particularly right now while Saturn is looking at you and asking you to change your fixed parts, you’ll get learn MORE of the unpleasant Saturn lessons over the next seven years. I know which side I am voting for! I hope you choose wisely (Wise is a Saturn word )!
So, in our week ahead, Sun comes along to illuminate what Mercury talked about and activated last week. Sun is going to square Saturn and Neptune as he sextiles Uranus and has an aspect of adjustment to Jupiter. Here, essentially, is decision time for your soul. Choose for your best vision of your future. Do the Leo version ~ honorable, benevolent, loyal, proud, creative and generous ~ of the Saturn choices before you. This is the week when you see what the whole craziness of the past couple of years was for. Don’t you just love astrology?
Now, the other side of the story (because there always IS at LEAST one other side of every story) is about the folks who haven’t been reading this column and doing their Saturn as diligently as you have been doing your Saturn. They are going to be rocking and rolling in the week ahead! Sun is coming to square all those fixed planets. That means it is “exposure” time. The best disinfectant for just about anything is Sunshine! Shine a bright bolt of Sunlight on a thing and you’ll see it VERY clearly! All the flaws! All the flaws are right out there for the world to see. That is the other part of the week ahead. Exposure via Sunlight. I personally love these kinds of weeks as they tend to have juicy, jolly and quite fun news! Remember Venus the ruler of the SUN in Taurus is OUT OF BOUNDS! That means Venus is NOT going to be following the rules she normally follows. Venus is going to be like Toto in the Wizard of Oz. Venus is going to run over and pull back the curtain to show you the TRUE Wizard. Venus is going to expose the situation and people involved for what and who they are.
So advise the folks you know going through difficult times with Saturn to make sure to be a good version of Leo Saturn. Encourage them to do the honorable thing. Even IF the honorable thing is VERY difficult for them to do, encourage them to take that high or hard road. Mention that next up comes Saturn in Virgo. Do they want to be building and perfecting their best life or dissecting and taking it apart over the next 7 years? No, it isn’t quite as dire as all that right this minute but it will be very soon if appropriate choices aren‘t made while in the fixed energy of Fire Leo. Once the energy moves into Earth and Virgo, the energy becomes much more heavy and hard to move. (Go carry a candle flame around and them pick up a shovel of dirt to see the difference between fire and earth!) The myriad details of Virgo will take over our worlds as we become consumed with that process in the fall. Virgo can be a process of building and improving or dissecting and criticizing. That is the choice facing all of us now.
Monday, Mercury finishes his illumination journey with the fixed planets as he squares Neptune. Once Mercury emerges from the fog of Neptune, the crystal clear vision of the Sunlight energy is going to take over. Mercury offers Pluto a last opportunity to get it right today. Based on the decisions made, Mars joins with Juno by declination and starts a two year partnership of creating or dissecting.
Tuesday, Venus enters Cancer today. Remember Venus is still WAY out of bounds. Decisions are being made regarding her connections and family of choice or origin ~ she’s in a Cardinal sign. No more vacillating or going back and forth. When Venus enters Cancer she hunkers down a bit and says “hmmm”. Security is paramount. Action is taken. Plus, the moon is WAY out of bounds too so emotions and the tides of energy are running high! The Sun begins his aspects with Uranus and Jupiter. Expect unexpected turns. Make adjustments in your position as you receive new information! Especially as other kinds of information comes to light. And, trust me, new information WILL come to light as Sun lights up the dark and hidden spots! We’ll see the flaws in everything. Remember, flaws are part and parcel of life. No throwing out the baby with the bathwater ~ clay feet are real. The other stuff you were looking at is NOT reality.
Wednesday, Sun squares Saturn. Decision day. And yes, it is a karmic decision you are making today as Mercury wakes up the North Node of Destiny. Choose wisely. Now, remember KARMA, while overused a bit in this day and age, is THE CONSEQUENCES of ACTIONS. Your actions today are going to plant the cosmic seeds for th
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w, you might be able to pluck some of the seeds out of the ground over the next few months or pull the plants out as they start to grow roots. But today, those seeds are scattered to the wind! Going to be a great news day too! Remember how easy it is to pluck a dandelion (a Leo weed if there every was one ~ dandy lion) while it is yellow, round and bright before it forms that seed cluster of baby dandelion potentials that scatter to the four corners of the world on the summer wind!
Thursday, Mercury and Jupiter have harsh aspects to Pluto and Uranus respectively. I call these pulling the trigger aspects. While I love to believe, as a Virgo, that all things are ‘fixable‘, some times things aren’t fixable. Mercury is in his last degree of Taurus, ruled by an out of bounds Venus, as he aspects Pluto by inconjunct. Ouch. Remember the out of bounds planets are unpredictable! What you “THINK” they will do, based on your past understanding of their behavior, is NOT what they are going to do, especially if HONOR or some other sort of LEO word is involved. This is one of those Straws that break the Camel’s back kind of days. You know how it seems like “it was such a LITTLE thing” and POOF a relationships is gone? Well, it actually was a rather large build up of tension over time. Today is the last straw day. Time for the relationship to shift and change as we get ready for Saturn to move out of Leo and into Virgo.
Friday, Mercury enters Gemini, leaving Taurus with his marching orders and instructions from out of bound Venus about what to do next. Mercury has an aspect of unusual energy with the brilliance of Uranus near the north node. Remember back a week or so ago when Mars and Uranus joined to start a new journey? That was the shot across the bow. Today, Mercury heads out to meet them with the operating instructions from Venus. Remember Venus is what we honor, value and desire. She’s in charge of our second house of values as well as our seventh house of relationships. She might be one of the smaller planets in the solar system but from OUR perspective on earth, we see her as one of the biggest wandering stars. People do their Venuses. Venus is our desires. We act to fill our desires. Watch the actions today, not the words ~ they will tell you what the person honors and values.
On Saturn’s day, the Sun squares Neptune ~ once Sun gets past Neptune‘s fog, everything becomes much clearer. The correct course of action is seen like a cosmic yellow brick road before you. Mercury is shouting across the heavens to Jupiter and suggesting the plan that Venus had. And from the internet: Maybe we should celebrate May 12 as Girl’s Night Out? This will be the first time Ceres will be conjunct Eris since they were both elevated to planet status. They’ll be forming a beautiful grand trine to Jupiter and Saturn, with Neptune and Chiron as kite tail/anchors! Eris is the Goddess of Discord. She started the multiyear Trojan War with that golden apple of hers! It started because she felt disrespected by not being invited to a christening. Talk about a Saturn in Leo energy!
Sunday, Mars makes his opening square to Pluto. Mars and Pluto often show up in our lives as WAR or fights. Mars is still in the last degrees of Pisces so while the actions might be minor, all the feelings are riding high and wild. Pluto in Sagittarius says “What is Right?” Sagittarius is the higher version of the law. Mars in Pisces says it is for the collective, the greater good, the vision of connection between cause and effect. It might be a slap in the face of honor. Remember how there used to be duels over honor? That is the energy. Lawsuits filed today or actions undertaken are for justice and right, not for the money or whatever the words, papers or appearances say they are for. Actions taken are to prove a point. Sun, still ruled by Out of bounds Venus, is in a bi-quintile aspect to Pluto. What happens today is for the greater good and evolution of the species or individuals involved. Under similar aspects, people have protested for their rights, died while defending the rights of others or stepped up the bar to say, “Nope, we are not going to do this any more!” Rosa Parks on the bus. Gandhi’s hunger strike. Peace Protests. It might be a small or large incident. But it will be a shot heard round the world ~ or at least heard around YOUR world. Notice what it is. You are going to spend most of Saturn’s time in Virgo dealing with it.
Mundane: I love the Washington Prostitute outing the high ranking officials who came and used her employee’s services. Talk about an Out of Bounds VENUS! Whee haw! Saturn’s coming to call. Saturn’s not stopping. Going to be a great news week! George, Dick, and Karl’s charts are quite active. No updates on the astrology of atlantis in the bee colonies but I am still reading up on it.
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
